The last couple of weeks have been different from normal. A couple of theological conferences combined with school holidays and a break from PhD writing left some more time for introspection and catching up with people outside of the everyday run of things. The trip to Australia went well. I appreciated the chance to listen…

Back from Melbourne safe and sound. I’ll post some thoughts on the conference and Melbourne itself in a day or two.

My son came home with an end-of-term newsletter from his primary school yesterday. Next term their middle school topic is: “Help! Save our forests!” Most excellent. I look forward to be educated.

PhD chapter handed in to supervisors, exam marking finished and miscellaneous errands run. Now it’s off to Melbourne today to go to the ANZATS conference and to catch up with my folks (who conveniently live in Melbourne). And then back in a week’s time for the God’sZone? Theological Scholarship in Aotearoa-New Zealand conference. (Including paper…

An idea for documenting the changes in urban landscapes in the US. It’s nice to see people thinking about the depth of time, rather than the fact that their email wasn’t delivered in 5 seconds. The concept is for cameras to capture 1000 years of history through time-lapse photography. I especially like the idea of…

Very busy this week. PhD chapter due, course marking and then off to Melbourne on Saturday. Plus all the other normal things that happen in a week. Anyway, back to the interaction of creation, humanity, eschatology and Christology with technoscience. And the coffee.

Trying hard to be constructive and encouraging. Trying hard not to be like a vitriolic American/NZ Idol judge. But at times it’s all so trying… Strands of U2’s song “Grace” keep running through my head – “Grace finds beauty in everything.” As an aside I had a classmate who had the following left on his…

Essay marking time again. Seems a bit like this lost manuscript of Zech 5:1-3. “Again I looked up and saw a pile of essays. And he said to me, ‘What do you see?’ I answered, ‘I see a pile of essays; its length is twenty cubits, and its width ten cubits.’ Then he said to…

So it’s Friday – the birds are singing, the sun is shining and life is good. The dark hours (or “long, dark teatime of the soul”) of another Thursday have departed. Had a nice morning visiting another theology PhD student, drinking excellent coffee (Phil works in a shop specializing in coffee machines) and chatting about…

New Zealand have retained the IRB Sevens overall crown for the fifth time, despite losing to England in the final of the IRB Sevens London 22-19. The Kiwi’s just needed to make it to the semi-finals to assure them of the title but given some of the upsets this year that wasn’t a given. It’s…